Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation (Jewish Lives)
By: Daniel C. Matt
4.29
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
The story of the prophet Elijah’s transformation from fierce zealot to compassionate hero and cheri…
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1. The Grammar of God: A Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible
By: Aviya Kushner
4.21
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Aviya Kushner grew up in a Hebrew-speaking family, reading the Bible in the original Hebrew and deb… read more
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"Translation means that a translator has picked one word above all the others: one winner, with all the finalists gone from the page forever. Translation always calls upon the translator to make a jud…"-Aviya Kushner, The Grammar of God: A Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible
2. I and Thou
By: Martin Buber , Walter Kaufmann
4.07
Format: 185 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover for this isbn can be found here. Martin Buber's I and Thou has long been accl… read more
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"All real living is meeting."-Martin Buber, I and Thou
"Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity."-Martin Buber, I and Thou
"True beings are lived in the present, the life of objects is lived in the past."-Martin Buber, I and Thou
"Feelings one "has"; love occurs. Feelings dwell in man, but man dwells in his love."-Martin Buber, I and Thou
3. Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
By: Rebecca Goldstein
3.93
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Part of the Jewish Encounter series In 1656, Amsterdam’s Jewish community excommunicated Baruch … read more
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4. Jacob: Unexpected Patriarch (Jewish Lives)
By: Yair Zakovitch
3.87
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a meditation on the complex life of the father of the Tw… read more
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5. Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
By: Anthony Everitt
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
"All ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher combined." --John Adam… read more
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6. David: The Divided Heart
By: None
4.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A reexamination of the biblical David, legendary warrior, poet, and king, by one of America's most … read more
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7. This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation
By: Alan Lew
3.80
Format: 281 pages, Hardcover
There are moments in life when one is caught utterly unprepared. Drawing on both his rabbinical tra… read more
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8. The Woman Beyond the Sea
By: Sarit Yishai-Levi
3.98
Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition
A mesmerizing novel about three generations of women who have lost each other—and the quest to weav… read more
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9. People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
By: Dara Horn
4.36
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating ess… read more
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"Evil' may or may not be banal, but killing Jews sure is."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"between the raindrops" - a Hebrew expression for evading repeated disaster."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"Sometimes your body is someone else's haunted house. Other people look at you and can only see the dead."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"There are so few Jews in the world: even in the United States, we are barely 2 percent of the population, a minority among minorities... Statistically speaking, nothing that happens to Jews should be…"-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
10. The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World
By: Sharon Brous
4.54
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From one of our country’s most prominent rabbis, an inspiring book about the power of community bas… read more
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11. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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12. The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People
By: Walter Russell Mead
4.22
Format: 672 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of God and Gold and Special Providence, a groundbreaking new work that o… read more
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13. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
By: Rachel Aviv
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions … read more
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"It's startling to realize how narrowly we avoid, or miss, living radically different lives."-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
"For a child, solipsistic by nature, there are limits to the ways that despair can be communicated. Culture shapes the scripts that expressions of distress will follow. In both anorexia and resignatio…"-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
14. One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World
By: Michael Frank
4.27
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
One of Wall Street Journal ’s Ten Best Books of the Year * Winner of the National Jewish Book Award… read more
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"I do believe that as we travel through life we become a different person in every situation, or context, or phase."-Michael Frank, One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World
15. Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
By: József Debreczeni
4.53
Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition
The first English language edition of a lost memoir by a Holocaust survivor, offering a shocking an… read more
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16. How the Talmud Can Change Your Life: Surprisingly Modern Advice from a Very Old Book
By: Liel Leibovitz
4.00
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A witty and wide-ranging exploration of a book that has perplexed and delighted people for the Tal… read more
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17. Spinoza: Freedom's Messiah (Jewish Lives)
By: Ian Buruma
4.10
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Ian Buruma explores the life and death of Baruch Spinoza, the Enlightenment thinker whose belief in… read more
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18. Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation (Jewish Lives)
By: Daniel C. Matt
4.29
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
The story of the prophet Elijah’s transformation from fierce zealot to compassionate hero and cheri… read more
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19. Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
By: Shai Held
4.57
Format: 546 pages, Hardcover
A profound, startling new understanding of Jewish life, illuminating the forgotten heart of Jewish … read more
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20. Filled with Fire and Light: Portraits and Legends from the Bible, Talmud, and Hasidic World
By: Elie Wiesel
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Magnificent insights into the lives of biblical prophets and kings, Talmudic sages, and Hasidic rab… read more
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21. Creation and the Persistence of Evil: The Jewish Drama of Divine Omnipotence
By: Jon D. Levenson
4.16
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
This paperback edition brings to a wide audience one of the most innovative and meaningful models o… read more
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22. The Tunnel
By: A.B. Yehoshua
3.66
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD From the award-w… read more
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23. Ruth: A Migrant’s Tale (Jewish Lives)
By: Ilana Pardes
3.56
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
A wide-ranging exploration of the story of Ruth, a foreigner who became the founding mother of the … read more
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24. Herod the Great: Jewish King in a Roman World (Jewish Lives)
By: Martin Goodman
4.13
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
A vivid account of the political triumphs and domestic tragedies of the Jewish king Herod the Great… read more
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25. Maimonides: Faith in Reason (Jewish Lives)
By: Alberto Manguel
3.67
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An exploration of Maimonides, the medieval philosopher, physician, and religious thinker, author of… read more
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26. Can "The Whole World" Be Wrong?: Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad
By: Richard Landes
4.50
Format: 794 pages, Kindle Edition
Landes, a medievalist and historian of apocalyptic movements, takes us through the first years of t… read more
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27. One Mile and Two Days Before Sunset (The Lost Detective #1)
By: Shimon Adaf
3.58
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
"In Shimon Adaf's Lost Detective Trilogy, what begins as conventional mystery becomes by degrees a … read more
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28. The Passover Haggadah: A Biography
By: Vanessa L. Ochs
3.92
Format: 232 pages, ebook
The life and times of a treasured book read by generations of Jewish families at the seder table E… read more
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29. Who Will Lead Us?: The Story of Five Hasidic Dynasties in America
By: Samuel C. Heilman
4.28
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Hasidism, a movement many believed had passed its golden age, has had an extraordinary revival sinc… read more
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30. Free as a Jew: A Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation
By: Ruth R. Wisse
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
“Ruth Wisse’s intellectual autobiography is a lasting work of profound moral force and scathing pol… read more
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31. The Hidden Order of Intimacy: Reflections on the Book of Leviticus
By: Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
4.27
Format: 483 pages, Kindle Edition
A masterly analysis of the Book of Leviticus, the newest volume in the award-winning series of comm… read more
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